Syrian refugees in Lebanon are being evicted and their businesses are being shut down, following new labour laws that have been subject to global condemnation. Following new labour laws that have been subject to global [ More … ]
United Nations refugee agency on Sunday called on Gulf Arab states to give more to help Syrians displaced by six years of crisis, whose numbers exceeded five million and scattered around the globe, while the [ More … ]
Millions of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon’s borders have caused huge pressure to public services and infrastructure, according to the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Lebanon has reached “breaking point” Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned [ More … ]
Hungary announced on Monday that it was ready to enforce a controversial law to detain asylum-seekers in camps on its southern border with Serbia. Hungary’s parliament approved the systematic detention of all asylum-seekers in camps [ More … ]
When the US President Donald Trump issued his first travel ban to protect “National Security” as he claimed, lives of thousands of refugees, who were accepted or on the waiting list, were deeply affected. Some of them even [ More … ]
As the battle against Islamic State in western Mosul intensifies, tens of thousands have fled the violence to be accommodated in the already over-crowded camps. However, the UN expects the number of displaced people to [ More … ]
More than 200,000 people have been forced to flee as a result of the US-backed Iraqi forces’ battle to retake Mosul city from ISIS that began in October, according to a nongovernmental organization. The United States is [ More … ]
More than 65,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in northern Syria in the past few weeks, the United Nations said, as various groups launched fierce campaigns to end Islamic state’s influence there. The [ More … ]
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu says Turkey shelters some 3.5 million people Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, speaking at the Migration Policies Board meeting in Ankara on Wednesday, announced the exact number of Syrian refugees [ More … ]
The subject of “safe zones” in Syria has been debated for years even as civilians continue to die and flee at the hands of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and other forms of violence. However, it became [ More … ]
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken a stand on social media against the temporary US ban signed by Donald Trump on refugees and immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. Trump’s order bans Syrian refugees, claiming [ More … ]
The new US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries, fulfilling a campaign-trail promise to introduce what he dubbed “extreme vetting.” Trump’s order bans [ More … ]
The new US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries, fulfilling a campaign-trail promise to introduce what he dubbed “extreme vetting.” “I’m establishing new [ More … ]
A bomb blast struck the Rukban camp for displaced people in Syria near the border with Jordan on Saturday, causing injuries and deaths, and worsening the already dire situation in that area. Rukban is located [ More … ]
Canada began welcoming Syrian refugees in larger numbers last year, after a promise to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the new year. Through the past year, Canada gave the world a lesson about dealing with [ More … ]
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